Huntsville gazette., 1887-03-19
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

in Philadelphia in 1886 over 1885 was
I1,030,017. si9H s8 eeQaa s.tI
Maps published by the Geological
Survey of New Jersey give Sandy Hook
four times as great an area as in the
year 1856, when an outline survey was
made. ai hF
There are two titles in this coun-
try-the Electoral Count and Sir Plus.
Several European monarchies would
like to have the latter. er.--Pittsburgh
Chronicle.
When the handsome Mr.. Clover
plays it the ladies fade away from the
room as softly as poets dream from
woodchopper's memory and the soul
of music expires in the wood-box.
A German statistician has discov-
cred that the average age of European
girls when they marry is greatly un-''
derestimated. 1t is as high as twenty
six years, and that of the men about
twenty-eight. r ai.t st.ti. ..fs
The valuable violin which
drunken heel went through on the
night of the dance at the ''widder's s"
has been so cleverly repaired by Cash
Macy that it sounds better than ever
Long Greek (Ore. Republican. ,-
"A Berrien County man arrived in
Quitman on Friday last with a CARLOAD
of possums. They were large and fat
and showed that they had been well
fed in Berrien. The possum trade is
in its infancy, but we shall foster it
i with care.-Quitmam (Ga.J Free Press.
"A Pennsylvania girl who was
whirled eight hundred times around a
main shaft and got out of it without
any serious injury, says she felt as if
she was sliding down a long hill on
hand-sled, and was in a delicious frame
Of mind. The toboggan must co.
Detroit Free Press.
One of the most expensive works
architects now have in hand is the new
\ Congress Hall for Buenos Ayres. This
is to cost $40, 900, 900, and to be built in
! four years. 1t is to be in the Renais-
sance style, its dimensions being 1900
feet by 900 feet. The site covers
twenty acres in the best part Of the
city. M
The meanest man in the country
has just left the Black Hills region.
He entered into correspondence with
young woman in New York, whose ad-
dress he had learned through matri-
monial agency, and finally proposed
marriage. She accepted him and went
to Dakota to be his wife. The night be-
fore she came he vamoosed. When
last heard from he was running for the
wilds Of Montana.
DR.. j. Stuart Marine, of the Glas-
gov Samaritan Hospital for Women,
has recorded several instances in his
practice in which the use of fish, boiled
or fried, as food, by patients, even
when considerably advanced in con-
valescence, was followed by evil conse-
quenees, and he has begun to believe
that, under any circumstances Of de-
bility, fish was very dangerous diet
and forbade its use.-Popular Science
Monthly.
MIR. j. G. Bayles, editor Of the Iron
all traps should be omitted in the sewer
system connected with houses The
trap, he insists, is little cesspool,
which interferes with the free flow Of
air and water, and so of flush. The
] true remedy for sewer gas, he thinks,
/ is fresh air inlets. If these abound, he
says, there will be no riskful gas, and
'.no trap" will be one of the sanitary
! advances of the day.
| A recent writer states that the
senses are not parallel in men and
women. The latter possess to greater
perfection the sense Of touch. The
senses of hearing and sight are rela-
I lively the same in both sexes, but it is
considered that men have the sense of
1 taste more delicately developed than
women. The sense of smell was in
the experiments made doubly as acute
in men as in women. No reason is as
signed for the distinction.
| in 1870 Mary Byrne, a girl of ten
years, was run over by the New York
| Centra! & Hudson River Railroad ears
| WHllC dh diicJ III Ivy, -.
and one Of her legs was so badly
crushed as to necessitate amputation
| above the knee on two occasions. The
company was sued, and she got a ver-.
dict of $4,000 This was set aside by
the Court Of Appeals. New trials re-
suited, until lately the highest court
sustained verdict Of 81 800 in her be-
half.
"A well posted railway man says
that the obligatory footing Of loco
| motive on the New York, New Haven
| 4 Hartford railroad, in an ordinary
days run, involves a waste OF steam
requiring the consumption OF $50
pounds of coal to renew. He estimates
the whistling expenses of that particu-
lar railway at sl5,0 900 per year. There
| is a similar waste in the blowing OF the